These are challenging times we live in! The impact that Covid-19 has had on international schools is widespread and significant. For all schools there has been a need to pivot quickly to online learning and to create procedures for keeping social distancing bubbles in place. For many schools, expatriate families may have relocated which impacts student numbers … which puts immense pressure on balancing the budget. 😰 These are…
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One thing that I keep coming back to is the power of modelling. When I think of professional sports people and teams, they always have coaches that help to model good practice and act at a mirror to bounce off new techniques and ideas. When I think of all the times when I’m trying to learn something new, say how a new computer program works or some equipment, nine times…
Read MoreHas the Covid-19 Pandemic Changed our World?
Flipped classrooms and using digital media have been around for many years, and while some schools had gone further than others to embrace the opportunities available using web based tools, many international schools were very fixed in their mindset that chalk and talk was the backbone of teaching. Â And when the Covid pandemic struck, many international schools were faced with the challenge that a significant number of their students may…
Read MoreDual Coding
There is some very interesting educational research about Dual Coding that has such relevance for professional learning experiences. We all know the saying about “a picture is worth a thousand words” and certainly in any form of education, whether educating children or professional learning, the aim is not to confuse the learner or make them take unnecessarily prolonged paths to their learning, but to accelerate learning wherever possible so that…
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